 So the year is quickly coming to a close and that means that it's time for the Yearly wrap-up videos that a lot of Linux youtubers do and I'm gonna do a few of them because they're kind of fun to do It makes me kind of look back on the year and kind of decide What were my favorite things? What were the things that I enjoyed about Linux the most and today? I'm gonna be talking about an easy one today. I'm gonna be talking about Five of my favorite apps the the the five apps that I use the absolute most out of this year And these aren't gonna be necessarily new apps. Some of them will be new to me Some of them that I will be ones that I've used for a long time They're just really good apps. So I thought I'd actually show them to you today And maybe this if this isn't popular, I'll do it again next year if it's not I won't so let's go ahead and jump into the first app Okay, so the first app on my list and the one that I used a lot this year is Neil Mutt now I've used Neil Mutt for a long time But this is the first year that I really kind of dedicated myself to using it full time Before this I kind of used a mixture of Neil Mutt and the web client for Gmail But now that I've gotten it set up so that it's all to my liking I've switched to using it full time and I really really like it now It's not going to be for everybody because a lot of the email people get nowadays is just full of HTML stuff and Those emails don't really come accrue. You know come through really all that well So if that really bothers you Neil Mutt's probably not gonna be for you But for me the nerd inside of me likes the fact that I use my email from the terminal And it's just something that I highly enjoy add into that being able to write emails inside of them You've won me over. I mean you don't really have to do anything else beside that So I really like Neil Mutt It's my email client of choice and I don't see myself switching away from it anytime soon The second one on the list is a new one that I just discovered this year and that is Rofi beats now This is an application that I've made a video about before and basically all this is is a Rofi menu For being able to stream certain streams from the internet now a lot of this stuff is lo-fi stuff And that's the stuff that comes with it by default But I've added a couple things like rain sounds and smooth jazz that I kind of always have playing in the background now It's just something and I've kind of gotten used to doing I do I sit in front of my computer I hit the key chord that I have set up for this particular Rofi menu And I select one of these streams and it's just playing constantly in the background while I'm doing my day job And it's awesome now what I wanted to want to do eventually adds some more streams to this I just haven't really felt the need to so far But the reason why I like it a lot is because you can go through and add streams to it You can go through and as long as it's streaming on the internet and it will work with something like YouTube DL This will actually work really well It'll also work well with anything will work go through MPV and use the no video option If you're streaming from a video service like YouTube, so that is really cool. That's Rofi beats The next one on the list is an oldie, but a goodie. It's one that I've used For at least three years now Well, probably two years now really probably since I started using tiling window managers And honestly, I don't think that I could use a tiling window manager that doesn't have this simply because all of my key bindings are here This is sx-hkd and this is the configuration file And the reason why I say I couldn't use a tiling window manager without it is simply because like I said all of my stuff that I enjoy and use all the time is here so From key cords to open up certain websites to key cords to open up certain applications to open up a lot of my bash scripts and Rofi scripts that stuff's all here And if I had to go through and transfer all this stuff over to a configuration file for a certain window manager It would dilute the joy I had of using a new window manager just because this is this baby It just be a ton of work so sx-hkd has become one of those things where it's just Essential for my daily use of Linux. It's something that I just could not live without or I mean I could you know Obviously use Linux without it. I did before but it'd be It'd be harder to switch back and forth between window managers Which is something that I really like to do from time to time if I had to go through and set up each and every one of them with These specific window key bindings and stuff. So that's sx-hkd I highly recommend you use this simply because then you can go through and always have your key bindings in one place and just Download this one configuration file when you're reinstalling and you never lose anything. It's awesome so the next one on the list is called VimWiki and this is a Terminal based note-taking app it but it does a lot more than that and and really I don't do anything with scratch the surface of the things that it can do but What I like like it for is that it allows me to keep track of all my video ideas But it also does so much more than I use it for keeping track of a lot of different notes A lot of things for work and stuff like that VimWiki has become a central part of my daily workflow And it's one of those things where it'd be really hard to switch way now for the longest time He used a GUI application called ZimWiki and ZimWiki is fantastic And then in some ways I actually miss it because it allows you to do a lot of things like tagging It allows you to go through and see all of your notes along the side and like in some kind of tree style list It's it's amazing and like I said, I kind of miss it But I'm so entrenched into the VIM ecosystem now it'd be really really hard to switch back So I think I'm with VimWiki for the foreseeable feature and it's not as if I'm I hate VimWiki or anything I love it. It's fantastic. It's just I miss those couple features from Zim I could probably figure out a way to go through and recreate that tree style View in VimWiki if I wanted to use something like nerd tree or something like that to do that But it would not be quite the same But it's something to think about VimWiki is just something that like I said, I use every single day and it has all of my video ideas these are all the videos that I've already done That since I've started using this and I mean there's a few that aren't here that I put everywhere I'll sort of delete it but the idea is that all of my video ideas go here and I can go through and Take notes when I decide to take notes most of the time. I just wing it but whatever I also have a whole VimWiki for work It's just one of those things that I just my workflow would be completely different without it. So that's VimWiki Okay, and the last one on the list is I mean, it's silly. It's a file manager but this right here is crusader now Ignore the blinding white theme for whatever reason it didn't remember my theme after the last reboot That's something that I'm going to have to figure out. I don't know what's going on there But outside of that, this is the best app I've ever found for Linux I know calm down Matt. It's file manager, but seriously this thing is Amazing now it does have its issues So the the biggest thing that's going to keep a lot of people from using crusader Is that it has a ton of dependencies and it doesn't do a very good job of telling you what those dependencies are It tells you what some of them are But there's still going to be some things that you're going to have to kind of search out For example, if you want previews For images you have to have a certain dependency in order to do so and that dependency is not really listed I found it listed in a obscure linux mint form of all places And that's how I've learned how to enable it. Also If you even want this pane for previews, you kind of have to know where to find it So it's located under this menu here and that's how you get to it But I actually had to look that up right if I want to you can also change the position of the thing here, but The point is is it's not going to be for everybody because it's super Super complicated, but let me tell you why I love it Not only does it always open up in dual pane mode like seriously every file manager should do that I understand some people don't want full pane mode to dual pane mode, but for me It's a necessity also tabs Every file manager pretty much has tabs nowadays, but I love that they're along the bottom That's cool. And I've gotten so used to it I kind of freak out when I see tabs in a file manager that are on the top But but the the the number one feature Is that if I close this And open it back up It remembered my position Like it remembered my position It remembered all of the tabs that I had open. It is amazing I love that feature just that feature alone would have made me gush over it But also they're I don't want to make the whole video about crusader But there's also a compare directories feature that allows you to compare disks or directories And then you can sync them so that one is so that they're like mirrored And that's cool. A lot of times you have to have a third party like application to do that And this has that built in now like I said, it's not for everybody It has a lot of dependencies if you want to do things like bulk rename You have to have a dependency if you if you want to go through and do zipping of you know compression of files You have to have the proper dependencies and so on and so forth There's just one after another and I can see why that one be for everybody But for me once I got it set up to the point where it does this where remembers my position And it remembers the tabs that I had open I can never see myself switching away from this because it is so good now I know supposedly dolphin does the same thing but dolphin. I don't know. It's not as it's not As I say, it's not complex enough for me. I guess but mostly I've had problems with dolphin where it just does not work Well with dwm. This works fine I have noticed a couple of times where it for whatever reason you can move your mouse to focus on another window And it actually maintains focus even though your mouse isn't hovered or hovered over it anymore I don't know what's going on there And every once in a while it would like scrunch up into Like half the screen and you'd have to restart dwm in order to get that to away So it's not perfect and I know I spent most of my time in this video on crusader But this is my favorite app that I discovered this year. Like I've only been using it now for a month or so I'm pretty sure I've made two videos on it already Well, no, I didn't I made one full video on it and then I mentioned it in a podcast and this is being my third one You can be sure That crusader is going to be something that you'll see on this channel again Because it's my favorite thing that I discovered this year on linux by far like By far it's just so good And I'm such a nerd because it's a file manager and I nobody should be this excited over a file file manager It's just it's unhealthy, but I can't help it. It's good So, uh, yeah, those are my five favorite apps of the year Those are the ones that I've used the absolute most this year now I didn't include a web browser. Okay If I had included a web browser firefox, we've taken up one of the spaces because I'm always in wet and firefox I have switched back and forth between browsers throughout the year. I've used microsoft edge for a little while I use brave for a little while I use cubetal for or not cutel I use cute browser for a little while And I'm still using cute browser as like a secondary browser because I love the fact that I can now use ranger as a file picker But the ad blocking is still just so bad like man It's just so bad if if cute browser had good ad blocking it would be my web browser, but it's just it's bad Anyways, so in the comment section below I would love to hear what's your top five apps of the year are what ones have you used the absolute most I'd love to hear from you. Make sure you hit that subscribe button and the like button It really does help out the channel. Thanks everybody who has already done so You can follow me on twitter at linuxcast. 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